Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to seek reciprocal recognition of unregistered design rights between the EU and the UK after the UK leaves the EU.

As expressed in the UK Technical Note on “Other Separation Issues”, where the UK does not have existing domestic legislation to protect certain types of rights, it will establish new schemes. This will preserve the full scope of the unregistered Community design right in the UK.

In respect of reciprocal recognition of EU and UK unregistered design rights, negotiations will take place with the EU as part of the leaving process, which we hope will deal with these matters.